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Residents of 16 localities affected by the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) Garbage Transfer Station (GTS), successful Ward No. 76, of Gajuwaka, announced connected Friday that they would fastener the garbage installation and motorboat a protestation from March 20.
B. Ramana, a CPI(M) activist, subordinate of Gajuwaka Dumping Yard JAC and a nonmigratory of Ward 76, on with fewer locals, staged a protestation astatine the tract connected Friday. They said: “Residents had earlier staged relay hunger strikes from February 8 to 15, demanding the shifting of the GTS, which they alleged has been causing terrible wellness problems.
They recalled that during a gathering held astatine the Gajuwaka GVMC bureau connected February 15, TDP State president and MLA Palla Srinivasa Rao, had reportedly assured the protesters that the Municipal Administration Minister P. Narayana would beryllium brought to the tract by March 10 and that the installation would beryllium shifted immediately.
"The committedness has not been fulfilled. Instead of bringing the Minister and initiating steps to relocate the dumping yard, officials person reportedly begun laying a caller roadworthy to the site," Mr. Ramana said. He added that erstwhile locals questioned the officials astir the move, they were reportedly told that the determination had been taken arsenic per the instructions of the Commissioner.
The JAC leaders announced that residents of each the 16 localities would jointly fastener the GTS gates connected March 20 and motorboat an indefinite protest. The agitators said they would signifier a round-the-clock sit-in protestation and organise a ‘Vanta-Varpu’ programme astatine the tract until the dumping gait is relocated.
